Letteratura Inglese

CHARACTERS
-The old King(he is a great sinner)
-The young King(he is poor, then becomes a King)
-The slaves(-of his dreams-they must work to live)
-The Chamberlain(he tries in vain to make the King wear the king’s raiment)
-The old Bishop(he’s wise and gives good advices to the King)

The Birthday of the Infanta_
On th

Robert Browning’s great works are ‘The Ring and the Book’ and ‘Dramatic Romances and Lyrics’. The extract we can read is ‘A heart… too soon made glad’, which belongs to the ‘My Last Duchess’. The setting is the castle of the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II D’Este and he spoke about his forst wife, who he killed after 3 years of marriage (1561). His wife’s

There are some methods to depict consciousness because of it often combines past-present-future.These methods are for example flashbacks fade-out or slow-up , the use of similes and metaphors or particoular forms of punctuation.
Interior monologue
The basic and the most used method is the use of “interior monologue” that is differ

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Poco dopo, però, l’amicizia che univa Antonio e Cesare si scioglie poiché Cesare, come dice Antonio, “ha scatenato un’altra guerra contro Pompeo. Ha fatto e ha reso pubblico il suo testamento. Di me ha parlato di sfuggita, e quando – costretto - mi ha rivolto un elogio è stato avaro di parole, freddo e di malumore”. A questo punto assi

• Marriage→ he married Constance Lloyd and they had 2 children, but wasn’t an happy relationship. They divorced because in 1886 Wilde was accused of homosexuality by the father of his lover, who was lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labour.
Features and Themes
• He was an eclectic personality. His output cover

Allevato nella religione protestante, Wilde studiò alla Portora Royal School di Enniskillen ed al Trinity College di Dublino, dove si distinse come latinista e grecista e vinse una borsa di studio per il Magdalene College di Oxford. Qui fu sensibile a varie influenze: il cattolicesimo di Newman, che lo interessò come critica alla religione della maggio

OLIVER
TWIST
By Cherles Dickens

AUTHOR: Charles Dickens
TITLE: Oliver Twist
TOPIC: Oliver Twist

THEMES:
-the starvation suffered by children
-the ill-treatment suffered by children
-the behavior of the rich men with the orphans~~...

Then Alice woke up, discovering that it was only a dream, and sometimes a nightmare.
The language used is very simple, because the will of the author was to give this book as a present to a little child, and so, very often, he invented strange words like “rocking-dragonfly”, a mix between a rocking-horse and a dragonfly....

Wordsworth used a very simple language, near to the spoken one and far from poetic diction.
Imagination played an important role; it was the capacity of modify the objects observed giving them an unusual aspect; the poet’s eyes could see the reality deeper than the ordinary people ones.
Poetry doesn’t describe just natural and simple objects wit

It is a very realistic and detailed passage. There are a lot of epithet thanes, kennings, adjectives like strong, gallant and fearless. The Anglo-Saxon soldiers were brave, generous, courageous and loyal. The betrayal was a serious fault.
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